In the Astonishing X-Men: Xenogenesis comic book series, Warren Ellis and Kaare Andrews take the X-Men into the Heroic Age. Something's happening in the tiny East African city of Mbangwi that requires immediate investigation. A newborn sprouts metal electrodes and explodes, taking out an entire hospital. Is this the first wave of mutant rebirth that the X-Men have been praying for - or something very, very different?